SACRAMENTO,
Calif. – March of Dimes’ 2018 March for Babies ambassador is 3½-year-old Christian
Nathaniel Rios Ashley, whose life was saved due to the advanced care of the Sutter
Medical Center, Sacramento High-Risk Maternity Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit.

After
trying for several years, Christian’s parents, Christina and Daniel, were thrilled
when they got pregnant. But at 22 weeks into her pregnancy, Christina was quickly
hospitalized in the Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento High Risk Maternity Unit for
incompetent uterus. The doctors told Christina, “We need to get this baby to 24 weeks,”
where the odds of survival were much higher.

SACRAMENTO,
Calif.,—The Sutter Health network of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare
providers announced its financial performance for 2017. Income attributable to Sutter
Health for 2017 was $893 million, compared to $554 million in 2016. The system’s total
2017 operating revenues remained consistent with 2016 at $12 billion. Sutter Health
posted $651 million in investment income and changes in net unrealized gains and losses
from investments classified as trading in 2017, compared to $252 million the prior
year. Sutter Health’s combined 2017 income from the day-to-day operations of its hospitals,
care centers and other services was $326 million, compared to $377 million in 2016.

Community-Based
Investments to Improve Access to Healthcare

A stable financial position gives
Sutter Health the opportunity to further expand community access to high-quality healthcare.
Sutter Health invested $924 million in new facilities and lifesaving technology throughout
Northern California in 2017—extending its total investment to nearly $10 billion during
the last 10 years. Read more... about Sutter Health Announces 2017 Financial Performance

Collaboration
is one of several new Sutter Health innovations to improve the doctor-patient
experience

SACRAMENTO,
Calif.—Northern California-based, not-for-profit Sutter
Health today announced it is working with Augmedix to benefit from the power of
Google
Cloud. Sutter Health has one of the largest deployments on Augmedix’s
documentation platform, which now runs on Google Cloud Platform. The collaboration
is one of several new Sutter Health innovations for patients and healthcare providers
to help make the healthcare experience more simple, engaging and human.

“We
are committed to creating new and meaningful ways to support our patients and clinicians,”
said Albert Chan, M.D., chief of digital patient
experience at Sutter Health and a family medicine doctor who uses Augmedix and Glass Enterprise Edition with patients during
clinic visits. “Glass with Augmedix takes care of many of the administrative visit
tasks, which allows doctors to focus on what we care most about—helping our patients.”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Larry Rowden,
52, of Fresno, had suffered with congestive heart failure for years and was being
kept alive by a portable heart pump called a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD,
but this wasn’t a permanent solution. What he needed was a new heart. He was listed
for a heart transplant at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, which is the only heart
transplant center in Northern California outside of the Bay Area.

On Valentine’s
Day, Larry was pondering how great it would be to receive a heart transplant during
Valentine’s month. He was given a beeper to alert him when a new heart was available.
He called it himself on Valentine’s Day, just to make sure it was working, hoping
it would go off soon.

LOS
BANOS — Memorial Hospital Los Banos delivered new technology to its Family Birth Center
and everyone from mothers to hospital staff are excited about its arrival.

A local family
uses the Monica Novii monitors while awaiting the birth of their baby at Memorial
Hospital Los Banos.

Thanks to philanthropic funds generated from the community
at MHLB’s annual 2016 gala, the Family Birth Center purchased two Monica Novii wireless
fetal monitors. Family Birth Center Manager Misty Mendonca, R.N., was thrilled to
finally cross these two items off her wish list.

“There are so many benefits
to these monitors – the biggest is that they promote freedom for our laboring mothers,”
she said.

Most laboring mothers prefer to walk the hallways of the labor and
delivery department while waiting for their little one to arrive. That’s not possible
when you are in a bed hooked up to a fetal monitor.

DAVIS,
Ca — Sutter Davis Hospital will be accepting its next round of applications for the
hospital’s Volunteer Doula Program starting February 15. The application will be open
until March 1 to interested applicants.

Doulas provide continuous physical, emotional and
informational support to mothers during the childbirth process. The hospital’s Doula
Program is a highly sought after opportunity with rigorous requirements. It is administered
by Birthing Center nurses who have many years of experience supporting women in labor.

Doulas
are a part of the Culture of Caring that is unique to SDH. Studies show that when
doulas are present at birth, women have shorter labors, fewer medical interventions,
fewer cesareans, healthier babies, and breastfeed longer. Recent evidence also suggests
that when a doula provides labor support, women are more satisfied with their experience
and the mother-infant interaction is enhanced long after the birth. Read more... about Sutter Davis Hospital Now Accepting Applications for Volunteer Doula Program

The Pediatric Urgent Care Clinic, located on the first floor
of 4050 Dublin Blvd., offers same-day medical attention for minor to moderate illnesses
after hours and on all holidays. The clinic is open from 1 to 8 p.m., Monday through
Friday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and holidays.

Jackson,
Calif. – Sutter Amador Hospital has been named a Baby-Friendly hospital by Baby-Friendly
USA, meeting the highest international standards for providing optimal care for breastfeeding
mothers and their infants.

A Baby-Friendly designation is given to select hospitals
worldwide recognizing birth facilities that offer breastfeeding mothers the information,
confidence and skills needed to successfully initiate and continue breastfeeding their
babies.

Applications are due April 13, 2018, from eligible
students pursuing a medical education

Palo Alto, Calif. (Feb.
7, 2018) – The physicians at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) continue to help
meet future needs for new physicians by awarding scholarships annually to deserving
high school students who are committed to becoming physicians.

Since 1993, PAMF
physicians have funded and awarded more than 60 scholarships to outstanding local
high school students who attend a four-year college and plan to pursue careers as
doctors.